George Michael Sheldrick, FRS (born 17 November 1942, in Huddersfield, England) is a British chemist who specialises in molecular structure determination.
[1] Sheldrick was awarded a Major Scholarship to study Natural Sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge.
He remained at the University of Cambridge to undertake postgraduate research under the supervision of Evelyn Ebsworth.
The topic of his thesis was the investigation of inorganic hydrides using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and was title "N.M.R.
[1] His younger brother, William S. Sheldrick (1945-2015), was a professor of analytical chemistry at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany until his retirement in 2010.